Hosea 2:4

Good News Translation

I will not show mercy to her children; they are the children of a shameless prostitute. She herself said, “I will go to my lovers—they give me food and water, wool and linen, olive oil and wine.”

Cross References

2 Kings 9:22

“Are you coming in peace?” Joram asked him. “How can there be peace,” Jehu answered, “when we still have all the witchcraft and idolatry that your mother Jezebel started?”

Isaiah 27:11

The branches of the trees are withered and broken, and women gather them for firewood. Because the people have understood nothing, God their Creator will not pity them or show them any mercy.

Isaiah 50:1

The Lord says, “Do you think I sent my people away like a man who divorces his wife? Where, then, are the papers of divorce? Do you think I sold you into captivity like a man who sells his children as slaves? No, you went away captive because of your sins; you were sent away because of your crimes.

Isaiah 57:3

Come here to be judged, you sinners! You are no better than sorcerers, adulterers, and prostitutes.

Jeremiah 13:14

Then I will smash them like jars against one another, old and young alike. No pity, compassion, or mercy will stop me from killing them.”

Jeremiah 16:5

“You must not enter a house where there is mourning. Do not grieve for anyone. I will no longer bless my people with peace or show them love and mercy.

Ezekiel 23:25

Because I am angry with you, I will let them deal with you in their anger. They will cut off your nose and your ears and kill your children. Yes, they will take your sons and daughters from you and burn them alive.

Ezekiel 8:18

They will feel all the force of my anger. I will not spare them or show them any mercy. They will shout prayers to me as loud as they can, but I will not listen to them.”

Ezekiel 9:10

But I will not have pity on them; I will do to them what they have done to others.”

Hosea 1:2

When the Lord first spoke to Israel through Hosea, he said to Hosea, “Go and get married; your wife will be unfaithful, and your children will be just like her. In the same way my people have left me and become unfaithful.”

Hosea 1:6

Gomer had a second child—this time it was a daughter. The Lord said to Hosea, “Name her ‘Unloved,’ because I will no longer show love to the people of Israel or forgive them.

Hosea 5:7

They have been unfaithful to the Lord; their children do not belong to him. So now they and their lands will soon be destroyed.

Zechariah 1:12

Then the angel said, “Almighty Lord, you have been angry with Jerusalem and the cities of Judah for seventy years now. How much longer will it be before you show them mercy?”

John 8:41

You are doing what your father did.” “God himself is the only Father we have,” they answered, “and we are his true children.”

Romans 11:22

Here we see how kind and how severe God is. He is severe toward those who have fallen, but kind to you—if you continue in his kindness. But if you do not, you too will be broken off.

Romans 9:18

So then, God has mercy on anyone he wishes, and he makes stubborn anyone he wishes.

James 2:13

For God will not show mercy when he judges the person who has not been merciful; but mercy triumphs over judgment.